Sentences with phrase «one's public school peers»

A majority of the states in our sample have charter sectors that enroll a higher percentage of low - income students than their traditional public schools peers.

A decline in percentile points means that students are substantially falling behind relative to their performance in public school or relative to their similar public school peers, depending on the study.

We will never have as much money as our charter and traditional public school peers, which means that we will always need to find creative solutions in our quest for excellence.

The Bay Area, Boston, D.C., Memphis, New Orleans, New York City and Newark are much stronger than their traditional public school peers in math.

«Mathematica 2013 Study: KIPP Charter School Students Outperform Public School Peers» Huffington Post, February 2013

Verriden said Hope eighth - graders outperformed their local public school peers in reading and math in the last WKCE exam and that that their pace of improvement exceeded those of students nationally and locally in what's known as the MAP assessment.

Berends and Waddington found that math achievement by voucher students was significantly lower than their matched public school peers during their first three years in private schools, with the negative effects being larger in the first two years -LRB--0.12 standard deviations).

In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.

With a strong K - 8 foundation of college preparatory content and skill development, Brooke alumni complete high school at a rate (98 %) more than double that of their Boston Public School peers (46 %)!

«It's absolutely unacceptable that public charter school students are treated as less than their other public school peers,» said Jeremiah Grace, Connecticut state director for the Northeast Charter Schools Network.

In addition to supporting the professional learning communities of secondary and elementary principals and assistant principals as the MCAAP VP, Mr. Bartee also co-chaired the Montgomery County Public Schools Peer Assistance and Review Panels for support staff, teachers and administrators.

The charter provides the school with operational autonomy to pursue specific educational objectives regarding curriculum, staff, and budget and holds them accountable to the same, often higher, standards of their district public school peers.

The most recent charter school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic growth among Boston charter school students is more than four times that of their traditional public school peers in English and more than six times greater in math.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

On average, homeschooled children (K - 12) score roughly 30 points above their public school peers.

Homeschooled students have been shown to have higher average scores on the ACT test (26.5) than their public school peers (25).

You can rest easy here as well as research again indicates that homeschoolers» scores are typically higher than that of their public school peers.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

But even when all students are included in the analysis, African - American students who attended private schools scored significantly higher than their public school peers (see Figure 2).

So not only does the departure of scholarship students improve the performance of their public school peers, it also leaves more money per pupil to be spent on those peers.

Before Putnam employed the concept to explain differences in governmental performance between northern and southern Italy, Coleman and his colleagues developed it to theorize why students in Catholic schools excel academically relative to their public school peers.

The study showed that after three years in the program, the students were eleven months ahead of their public school peers in math, eight months ahead in reading, and fourteen months ahead in science.

Home - schooled children typically excel their traditional public school peers.

Recent research in the U.S. showed that «the majority of online charter students had far weaker academic growth in both math and reading compared to their traditional public school peers.»

In response, choice proponents cite evidence that private school students are more civically engaged than their public school peers.

Meanwhile, also on Monday, studies of two existing voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana were released showing that after an initial backslide, students receiving vouchers make up ground and perform roughly as well as their public school peers after a few years.

Students who use vouchers score significantly higher on test scores than their public school peers - just as they are more tolerant and their parents are more satisfied.

The study provides evidence, however, that the Choice Scholarship Program is not enrolling high - performing students compared to public school peers, aka «cream skimming.»

That matters because, according to CREDO's most recent report, Michigan charter students are, by and large, outpacing their public school peers.

In other words: As we bring in best practices from our charter and traditional public school peers, we should be careful not to break those things about Catholic schools that make them effective.

In ELA, voucher students also lost ground but, ultimately, surpassed their public school peers by the fourth year.

Its children spend 60 % more time in class than their public school peers, and teachers» only hope for job security is improving student performance year after year.

For charter schools in operation from five to eight years, Hoxby finds that five percent more students reach proficiency in reading than their public school peers.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

In Milwaukee, we found that students attending public charter schools and private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program outperform their public school peers on both the Forward Exam and by 7 percent on the ACT.

New voucher students fell statistically significantly behind their public school peers in math after switching.

As public school students, children attending charters should be able to access similar funding and facilities as their traditional public school peers.

She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.

All the same, DoDEA's diverse population of students hold their own against their public school peers on several academic measures — including standardized assessments — and in many cases outperform them.

The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally scored no higher on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers.»

Participants in school choice programs graduate from high school at higher rates than their public school peers.

Studies show that school choice program participants perform as well as or better than their public school peers.

Students in poverty, black students, and those who are English language learners (ELL) gain significantly more days of learning each year in both reading and math compared to their traditional public school peers.

Where private school students shine is in reading, outperforming their public school peers by 22 points.

«The majority of online charter students had far weaker academic growth in both math and reading compared to their traditional public school peers.

And Trump's nominee for deputy secretary, Mitchell «Mick» Zais, said that he was «unaware» of research showing that students who received vouchers in states such as Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., performed worse on tests than their public school peers.